Apple Still Life 3

In this third and final still life I added a red apple to create a contrasting color composition. I again began with an imprimatur. In this painting I used a quadratic color scheme including, red, yellow, green and blue. I used blue and raw umber to paint the values in the background. I also used blue in the green apples to get a shared value between the bottom of the apples and the bottom of the box. I also used green to help tone down the red at the bottom of the red apple. I painted all these apples by using the panel technique as well.

Apple Still Life 2

In this second Still life I used a slightly different composition by adding a glass bottle into the box. I again started with an imprimatur painting in raw umber. I used a cool warm color scheme using green, yellow green, orange and red orange. I used a high key red orange to create a sense of light in the box and a more muted red orange mixed with raw umber to create the shadows in the box. In the bottle I used a very low key orange. In the apples I used green and yellow green and used some of the low key red orange in the bottom of the apples to try to show the shadows and the similar value of the bottom of the apple and the cardboard box.

Apple Still Life 1

This first still life painting was done in an analogous color scheme. the colors used were green, yellow green and yellow. I used raw umber and white to create various tones of the original colors used. I started by painting an imprimatur using raw umber to help bring out the values of the objects. Then I added color to the background, the cardboard box, with different shades of yellow. I tackled the apples by beginning with panels of the shades of green I needed and then blended the panels to create a rolling effect and make them look more three dimensional.